Monthly Archives January 2014

ITS OFFICIAL: the ORIGIN “OMNIPRESENT” sessions are a wrap!!! It was a grueling month, but you can be assured we have produced some of the most intense and diverse Origin material to date!! (Rest assured “diverse” does NOT mean clean singing or any soft metal BS) We go from lightspeed to absolute zero and back on this one. We are everywhere and nowhere. We are Omnipresent.

Cant wait for you to hear it. And you will. soon.

We want to thank everyone who had a hand in making this month endurable: The Flores family, the Longstreth family, the Ryan family, Rob Rebeck Chapman Recording Studios Lenexa, KS, Gary, Jeff, Chris of TROGLODYTE (CHECK. THEM. OUT. NOW...

Portland sludge slingers and recent Neurot family additions, STONEBURNER, are readying to unleash their forthcoming new full-length, Life Drawing. The follow-up to their 2012 debut, Sickness Will Pass, which The Sludgelord appropriately crowned “an ugly, visceral and truly terrifying beast of an album,” and Metal Underground dubbed “a bruising sludge/doom debut that is the perfect antidote to the dog days of summer,” features nine rumbling odes of bottom-heavy hostility and emotional decay. Recorded, mixed and produced by Fester at Haywire Studios, mastered by Adam Gonsalves at Telegraph Mastering — both in Portland — and swathed in the visually abrasive cover art of J.J...

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Recording sessions for Septicflesh‘s as-yet untitled new album have wrapped up with the group currently looking at a tentative summer release. Ten songs were tracked for the effort, including a collaboration with the Prague Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir. Logan Mader (Gojira, Fear Factory) mixed and mastered the outing, with the band stating:

“We are really exhausted from the work on this record, but also very proud of the results. We worked hard with Logan to bring you the ultimate death metal soundtrack for your darkest dreams. The compositions are progressive with a lot of emotional peaks, while at the same time the songs sound very aggressive and powerful.

We also had the chance to work for the first time with a full children’s choir besides the regular adult choir, a...

The debut release from ex-Morbid Angel bassist/vocalist Steve Tucker’s endtime death metal outfit, WARFATHER, is upon the masses, as Greyhaze Records released the mighty Orchestrating The Apocalypseon January 21st in North America, and its February 24th European release is closing in.

Acclaim from around the globe on the devastating yet atmospheric Orchestrating The Apocalypse is raining in, the album winning over diehard critics from the old-school and with current writers, and fans of all eras of Morbid Angel...

“Intolerance”, the new album from the Southern California metal act THROWDOWN, sold around 2,600 copies in the United States in its first week of release to debut at position No. 142 on The Billboard 200 chart. Released on January 21 via eOne Music, the follow-up to 2009’s “Deathless” was recorded at Hurley Recordings in Costa Mesa, California with rising producer Davey Warsop and mixed at Planet Z.

MÖTLEY CRÜE today officially announced they are retiring as a band. They will first play a final tour of 70 shows around the world, with tickets going on sale Friday, starting at $15. Alice Cooper has been named as their opening act. And to show they are not kidding around — the boys even signed a legal contract stating that they’re indeed retiring and this is the final Crue tour.

The band — Vince Neil, Mick Mars, Nikki Sixx and Tommy Lee — rose to fame in the early 80’s as a glam metal act in the crowded Hollywood music scene. They went on to have great success and became one of the biggest rock music acts of all times, selling 100 million records and touring the world over and over...

Italian old-school thrashers BRAIN DEAD have released a new video, for the track “Final Truth”, featured on their new studio album, Menace From The Sickness, available via Punishment 18 Records. Watch HERE.

The CD was recorded at Carlo Girardi’s One Black Sock studio and includes a guest appearance from drummer Andy Verga of Italian speed metallers BROKENGLAZZ, on a cover of that band’s track ‘Total Despair’. The cover artwork was created by Marco Hasmann (BEYOND CREATION, FLESHGOD APOCALYPSE), who worked on the previous Brain Dead full-length.